Etage Projects (DK)

Etage Projects is a Copenhagen-based art and design gallery specialising in a cross-aesthetic method. Actively questioning and pushing the lines between art and design, abstraction and function, Etage Projects works with creatives who form their praxis in-between established notions of contemporary art and design, thereby seeking to extend and to enrich the field of collective and interdisciplinary culture.

Borgergade 15E
1300 Copenhagen
(+45) 26 23 32 40

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CHART

For CHART 2024, Etage Projects will present a group presentation featuring works by Karl Monies, Minjae Kim, Ditte Gantriis and Anna Aagaard Jensen.

Karl Monies (DK)

Karl Monies is known for his series of decorative lidded containers, jars, and pots adorned externally by multi-coloured climbing rope and finished with oversized cork lids. A trained painter and part-time fine jewellery designer, Monies is somewhat of a stranger to utilitarian design objects, which he approaches with the naïveté of an amateur - a humble student. His on-going series of ceramic containers embrace design thinking only to interrogate it and undermine it from within. The result is that he creates a line of aesthetically compelling, esoterically symbolic, and deeply humane objects that seem both ancient and hyper-contemporary - silly and sublime.

Karl Monies (b. 1984, Copenhagen; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. He earned his BFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, and subsequently took up residency at Bangkok University, Bangkok. Recent exhibitions include ‘ARCANA’ and ‘CAMO’ at Etage Projects (Copenhagen; DK), ‘Le Hasard et la Nécessité’ at CCA Andratx (Mallorca; ES), ‘Masters of Laurels’ at Rumpelstiltskin (New York City; US) as well as exhibiting with Etage Projects at Design Miami/ Basel, Design Miami and NOMAD St. Moritz.

Decorative Lidded Containers, Jars, and Pots

Glazed ceramic, cork, rope
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Etage Projects

Decorative Lidded Containers, Jars, and Pots

Glazed ceramic, cork, rope
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Etage Projects

Bonum Lumen

Copper, Silicon, Brass
2022

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Portrait of Karl Monies

Courtesy of Etage Projects

Ditte Gantriis (DK)

Ditte Gantriis creates immersive installations working across a range of media. On many occasions Gantriis appropriates widely used symbols and signs, even cliches if you will, to question and repurpose their meaning. An appreciation of artisanry across various material lends Gantriis’s work the sleek formal vocabulary that is signature of her practice. In previous years, Gantriis’ practice has revolved around creating objects that she would want to live with. The artist wishes to offer an intimate relationship with her works in much the same way as she herself has with them.

Ditte Gantriis (b. 1980, Copenhagen; DK) is a Danish artist living and working in Copenhagen. She completed her Master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Gantriis has participated in exhibitions in Europe, the Baltics, Asia and the United States. Recent exhibitions include: Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus; DK), Art Sonje Center (Seoul; KR), KIM? Contemporary Art Center (Riga; LV); SALTS Gallery (Birsfelden; CH). Gantriis has worked as Associate Professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Department and is represented in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen; DK).

Open Marriage Chair

Cast tin, colour pigments, strips, epoxy resin
2019

Courtesy of the artist and Etage Projects

Body and Soul

Wicker Work
2014

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Installation View

Mixed Media

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Portrait of Ditte Gantriis

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Anna Aagaard Jensen (DK)

Anna Aagaard Jensen’s design practice interrogates the preconceived dictated behavioral patterns of women and the social factors allowing them to continue existing today. Her objects are alternative representations of the archetypes that surround us, made with a hyperfeminine aesthetic language where she uses makeup and extracts shapes related to the female body. In creating function, Jensen sculpts form into a story that advocates for a new way of looking at design, and inevitably at our environment.

Anna Aagaard Jensen (b. 1990, Esbjerg; DK) lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The artist graduated with an M.A. in Fine Arts and Design from Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2018 and a B.A. in Furniture Design from the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2015. Recent exhibitions include: Etage Projects (Copenhagen; DK), Friedman Benda (New York City; US), Functional Art Gallery (Berlin; DE) and Salone del Mobile (Milan; IT).

LIVELY DAISY #2

Polyurethane Foam, Styrofoam, Steel, Fiberglas, Acrylic Resin, Paint coated with PU
2022

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DAISY CHANDELIER #2

Polyurethane Foam, Styrofoam, Steel, Fiberglas, Acrylic Resin, Paint coated with PU
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Etage Projects

Minjae Kim (KR)

Minjae Kim’s furniture practice predicts playfulness, seduces through functionality, and brings a given viewer-user into tactile devotion. From his predictive bodily impressions carved into wood and the anthropomorphic sensibility of his forms, to the idiosyncratic silhouettes of his quilted fiberglass vessels, Kim insists on the invitation to actuate form and produce generative artistic meaning through materiality and touch.

Minjae Kim (b. 1989, Seoul; KR) lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. An alumnus of the Architecture program at Columbia University’s GSAPP, Kim recently spent time working with Studio Giancarlo Valle before establishing his solo studio practice. Kim’s work has been featured prominently in trade publications Architectural Digest, Pin-Up, Milk, Cero, as well as Tatiana Bilbao’s Two Sides of the Border. Minjae has shown works at Nomad St. Moritz with Etage Projects and Frieze LA with Marta.